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Although he didn't know the words to "Solidarity Forever" British folk singer Billy Bragg sang labour songs for the striking workers outside Ottawa's National museum today. Undeterred by a driving rain, the bumbershoot -bearing Bragg belted out some Labour standards...

Many conservationists have been talking about how commercial fishing practices have all but destroyed many of the most significant fish populations on the planet, like the snapper and giant bluefin tuna , however not as much attention has been drawn...

At least 42 people are reported to have been killed and hundreds more lie trapped in the debris of the mine explosion in Harbin, China. There were over 500 miners underground at the time of the explosion and over 300...

The head of the UN atomic watchdog has urged Iran to accept a deal over its nuclear programme by the end of the year, and "move beyond sanctions". Mohammed ElBaradei said the ball was "very much in the Iranian court"....

ISLAMABAD : Eight more news—managers from Pakistan’s private channels joined their colleagues on Saturday in endorsing the informal, self—applied guidelines for covering terrorism related incidents in the country. This phase of the consultative process was facilitated...

Yesterday the US Department of Agriculture released the most recent data on hunger in the United States. It verifies what we already knew - hunger is on the increase in our country. More than 49 million people in the US...

In this photo Seventeen school children are crammed into one of India's notoriously unstable three-wheeler taxis as they make their way to school in the city of Bhopal, India. United Nations officials urged cash-strapped governments not to cut back spending...